Publishers should apply to their SNBVE Agency.
If you are applying for SNBVE on behalf of a company or organisation it does not matter in which country your company or organisation is formally registered (e.g. for legal or tax registration purposes), it is the location where your company or organisation carries out its business and operates from that is the important criterion. (If you have more than one site, possibly in more than one country, then SNBVEs should be obtained based on where the headquarters of your organisation is situated).
What is a publisher?
The publisher is the group, organisation, company or individual who is responsible for initiating the production of a particular publication. Normally, the publisher is also the person or body who bears the cost or financial risk in making a product available. It is not normally the printer, but it can be the author of the book if the author has chosen to publish their book themselves.
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Can publishers choose where to get an SNBVE?
No, all publishers should apply to the SNBVE agency.
How much does it cost?
The SNBVE Agency does not influence or determine the cost of SNBVEs. Currently, the SNBVE fee is free, however the time it takes to release the code to the applicant can vary between one week and one month (depending on the demand for requests available).
Applying for SNBVE
Publishers must comply with the implementation guidelines including the scope and assignment rules for SNBVE. Publishers must supply the SNBVE agency with a specified amount of metadata about the publication (such as title, author, format etc) to which the SNBVE is assigned. The specifications concerning the type and format of the metadata is established by the SNBVE Agency.
All publishers must also supply full contact details (name of publisher, mailing address, email and URL).
Is it possible to get just a single SNBVE?
In many countries SNBVEs are available as single numbers (for author publishers). There are some exceptions though where the SNBVEs can only be obtained in blocks.